White Turtle Author:Merlinda Bobis Gingered chicken in green papayas, smothered with coconut milk, never fails to keep the tongue moist long after the meal is over. So does slightly burnt sugar lodged at the roof of the mouth, melting with infinite slowness. The acrid sweetness teaches the tongue not to forget... An anomalous kiss. A white turtle ferrying the dreams of ... more »the dead. A woman's twelve-metre hair trawling corpses from a river. These enigmatic tales of chance and hope are among twenty three stories set in the Philippines and Australia. Alternately mythic, wistful or quirky, Merlinda Bobis' tales resonate with an original and confident storytelling voice.« less